StarBase Research Summary, Autumn 1994

Abstract

This report describes the research activities pertaining to the StarBase project at the University of Virginia's Department of Computer Science. StarBase, a firm real-time database management system (RT-DBMS), is remarkable in that it is constructed on top of an actual real-time microkernel. StarBase seeks to provide a general RT-DBMS environment which can handle a variable transac tion load, rather than statically scheduling a known set of transactions. This report presents an overview of the StarBase RT-DBMS as it operates today and describes its development environment. The accomplishments of the last two years of research are reviewed and the critical features needed to support such a RT-DBMS are examined.